Hello, this is Dan from Smith’s School of English Miyakojima again 🙂 In April of this year, I wrote a previous blog post about the history of coronaviruses in general, and specifically about the new coronavirus, known as “SARS-CoV-2”. We learned that the Latin origin of the name “coronavirus” is “crown” because the virus itself […]
Kansai Fireworks Calendar 2018
Hello everyone! Some of you may know my wife Yoko and I are confirmed summer festival revelers, and this coming season promises to be a really busy one. Locals and tourists alike have more choices this summer. It’s good then, that the Kansai Fireworks Calendar 2018 is mostly decided; only three districts are left finalizing schedules. The Kansai Fireworks Calendar 2018 […]
NASA JUNO Mission Update
In the past several years NASA, ESA and JAXA have all had their list of triumphs alongside a small number of failures, but never before have we seen so many consecutive achievements as those coming from NASA. Last year there were the hugely successful DAWN and NEW HORIZONS missions, both of which gathered a ton of media […]